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user6769804
user6769804

Reputation:

Track user-agents that visit a site

I have a website and I want to track all user-agents that visit it. And save all the user-agents on a file, or send by email. How can I achieve that in PHP or JS?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 929

Answers (2)

zyx4sdk
zyx4sdk

Reputation: 320

For PHP you can use: https://github.com/ua-parser/uap-php and append each detected user-agent to txt file via php:

require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
use UAParser\Parser;

$ua = $SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];

$parser = Parser::create();
$result = $parser->parse($ua);

$fp = fopen('user-agents.txt', 'a'); //opens file in append mode  
fwrite($fp, $result->ua->toString());  
fclose($fp);

Note, using the library gives you many options to receive wanted data from user-agent. For example for user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Ma...' you can achieve that data:

print $result->ua->family;            // Safari
print $result->ua->major;             // 6
print $result->ua->minor;             // 0
print $result->ua->patch;             // 2
print $result->ua->toString();        // Safari 6.0.2
print $result->ua->toVersion();       // 6.0.2

print $result->os->family;            // Mac OS X
print $result->os->major;             // 10
print $result->os->minor;             // 7
print $result->os->patch;             // 5
print $result->os->patchMinor;        // [null]
print $result->os->toString();        // Mac OS X 10.7.5
print $result->os->toVersion();       // 10.7.5

print $result->device->family;        // Other

print $result->toString();            // Safari 6.0.2/Mac OS X 10.7.5
print $result->originalUserAgent;     // Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Ma...

Upvotes: 0

Kevin Waterson
Kevin Waterson

Reputation: 847

OK, three things need to happen. Write the file, mail the contents and clear the file after mailing. the first part will be in a separate file, whilst the mail and file clearing will be in another file

<?php

    // get the user agent
    $user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];

    // write to file
    file_put_contents( 'user_agents.log', $user_agent, FILE_APPEND );

?>

<?php


    // fetch the list of user agents from the file
    $body = file_get_contents( 'user_agents.log' );

    // mail to whereva
    mail( '[email protected]', 'User Agent Log', $body );

    // truncate the file back to zero
    $fh = fopen( 'user_agents.log', 'w' );
    fclose($fh);
?>

Upvotes: 1

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